Posted on 10/24/2023 4:11:20 PM PDT by cotton1706
Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., an Army veteran who opposed the far-right push for Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker, said he was stunned by Rep. Tom Emmer's exit from the speaker race.
"We are hopelessly divided. We are -- we are struggling to find our way," he told ABC's Rachel Scott. The people that are involved in these proceedings are hell-bent on making sure that if it's not their guy, their pick, nothing else matters." "We are hellbent on letting the perfect, or the selfish, get in the way of the good," he said.
Scott asked Womack, a six-term veteran, if he saw a way out of the chaos.
"I haven't seen it," he said. "To continue to go through this exercise is, I think, an existential threat to the constitutional republic," he said.
As Republicans gathered for yet another candidate forum Tuesday night, it's still not clear that any candidate can garner 217 votes on the House floor.
That's led to even more chatter around temporarily empowering Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry through a resolution vote on the floor.
"McHenry should be able to keep this going," former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said of the temporary speaker.
Meanwhile, Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., one of the eight GOP lawmakers who voted to oust McCarthy, told Scott he doesn't regret his decision that led to the last three weeks of gridlock.
"I regret not doing it in January, to solve this issue in January, rather than in October," he said.
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Just imagine being Womack. Fresh off defeating Jordan, then getting Emmer nominated. He’s probably saying to himself “heheh, got one over on the conservatives!”
Then BOOM! Whiplash!
It’s almost as if we have an opposition party.
ABC apparently can't even let a single sentence go by without bogus editorializing.
Hm, just saw “far right” used by the Always Been Communist network. Given that, why is not the Biden Clown show been described as “ultra super-secret corrupt far left”? After all, we know that the White House Crowd is left of Stalin.
If they want McHenry as Speaker, vote his ass in as Speaker. don’t make a continuing resolution Speaker. Seen how terrible a CR Budget has been.
Jim Jordan, nobody else!.
Found this on Twitter:
don’t know about you, but I’m loving the current Speaker. Doesn’t allow $$$ Israel and Ukraine bills through, doesn’t allow omnibus bills through, doesn’t allow CR bills through. Seems to be the best Speaker so far. The Deep State hates him.
Yep gotta herd the cats.
Those who want a doctrinaire conservative (I’d love one) need to realize they need to get the middle and left wing republicans to vote for him too.
Thank God Emmer withdrew. He is no social conservative.
Jordan played ball and had a good shot. For those who criticize him for playing ball, well that’s how he got his shot. He still may have a shot.
I’m done wasting my time calling Womacks office. He’s dead to me.
We’re falling off a libtard cliff and he’s afraid to vote for a conservative
Doesn't that also include you, loser?
You could have voted for Jordan and all this would be behind us.
“We’re falling off a libtard cliff and he’s afraid to vote for a conservative”
That’s because he’s got a CR Liberty score of 52%. He’s just BARELY conservative.
Freaking rinos.
He's kept every promise he's made so far, I'm voting for empty chair 2024
“To continue to go through this exercise is, I think, an existential threat to the constitutional republic,...”
If the Republic falls as a result of this circus, it was too decayed to survive.
Oh go f yourself you fairy.
Representative Steve Womack - AR
Liberty Score: F 52%
11 years in DC
Serious RINO, check out his voting record. Absolutely disgusting:
https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/steve-womack
We have right now a Coalition House, with the Freedom “caucus” voting as R’s.
McCarthy was only chosen after 15 votes because the Republicans gave the Freedom Caucus (party if you will) enough concessions to essentially form a coalition.
McCarthy broke the promises made regarding budgets. Promises made with the Freedom Caucus. Gaetz called him out on it, and the coalition picked speaker was voted out. yes, the Democrats assisted. I am not sure why exactly they did that. Most likely optics. Pelosi loves optics.
Anyway, we’re back to square one where two parties operating as one need to pick a compromise speaker again.
Too many people here are butt hurt over Gaetz, but our low info/low thought geniuses here seem to forget that the Freedom Caucus are RINO’s. They essentially are a third party.
You are correct.
He is the pot calling the kettle black and is too dumb to see it.
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